Steve Sailer writes: Perhaps what America needs now is a rewriting of the history of immigration in which the role of Jewish ethnocentrism in shaping today’s ruling mindset is forthrightly celebrated as a victory of Jewish ethnocentrism: e.g., Emma Lazarus wasn’t calling for letting in a lot of hot-headed Muslim anti-Semites, she was calling for letting in a lot of her fellow Jews. She wasn’t actually acting on universalist principles, she was just exploiting WASPs’ vulnerability, their weakness for idealistic spin.
Letting in millions of anti-Semite foreigners today is thus not the fulfillment but the betrayal of what Lazarus and other Jewish-American ancestors worked for.
COMMENTS:
* This whole “nation of immigrants” schema is arguably a Jewish cultural imprint on Americana. Before the 20th Century, Americans understood themselves to be a nation of settlers.
* Evidence for this is, actually, everywhere, if we care to look. Consider Obama’s recent public praise of a Syrian refugee, saying, “You are what makes America great.” (ABC News).
What?? A Syrian refugee who has lived in the USA for a very short period “makes America great”?! He literally hasn’t done anything…Yet it makes perfect sense in the context of the OP here.
